Inside Madonna’s Global Real Estate Portfolio | WATCH

It’s been over 30 years since Madonna released her hit “Material Girl,” and the singer now has the real estate portfolio to prove her claims. Over the past few decades, the Queen of Pop has accumulated an impressive collection of homes located in London, Beverly Hills, New York City, Lisbon, and more. The singer makes each city she lives in a new hub for her many projects. For instance, the historic 18th-century Moorish mansion in Portugal that she purchased in 2017 became the location for her daily dispatches during the pandemic. Most recently, she bought a Hidden Hills estate from The Weeknd—likely a sign of her return to Hollywood in time to release new music in 2022. Below, we’ve rounded up some of the singer’s other famous dwellings.

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1985

Madonna’s first marriage to actor Sean Penn also marked the start of her real estate portfolio, when the couple picked up a unit in the grand Harperley Hall just off Central Park in New York City. After their divorce in 1989, the singer held onto the apartment and purchased two more units on the fifth and sixth floor, combining them into a massive six-bedroom duplex. Her brother, Christopher G. Ciccone, designed the space in collaboration with architect Stephen Wang, in what became sanctuary for the singer for many years. “Who could I have more in common with than someone I grew up with?” she said in a 1991 Architectural Digest interview. “We like the same things, from music to what we eat.” She ultimately listed the duplex for $23.5 million in November 2012 and sold it for an undisclosed amount several months later.

1992

Another one of Madonna’s earlier homes was a $4.9 million nine-bedroom Mediterranean Revival estate on Miami’s exclusive Brickell Avenue, with 100 feet of water frontage boasting views of Biscayne Bay and the Miami skyline. Images from a listing reveal long, stone-covered walkways, swaying palm trees, and a private dock. The singer sold the property for $7.5 million in 2000.

1999

When Madonna first began dating Guy Ritchie in the late ’90s, the pair lived together in a two-bedroom, two-bathroom flat in South Kensington, London, that the director reportedly had already owned. After they married in late 2000, they called it home for a few more years before selling it in 2003. The duplex was a traditional mews house, with a carriage house below and living quarters on the second floor.

2001

From South Kensington, Madonna and Ritchie moved onto much larger fare, snapping up the historic Ashcombe House in Wiltshire, England, for around £9 million, or around $12.23 million. Originally built in the 1700s, the estate includes a main brick mansion, a dairy house, stables, and an 18th-century orangery. When it was owned by photographer and designer Cecil Beaton in the early 1900s, it was a gathering spot for some of the most famous artists and actors of the times, including Salvador Dalí, Whistler, and Lady Diana Cooper. Madonna once told Vogue that she and Ritchie “just fell in love with [the property]. In the summertime it’s the most beautiful place in the world.” Ritchie was ultimately awarded the house in the couple’s high-profile 2008 divorce, and he still lives there to this day.